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In her life and music, she was beyond confessional. Can Sam Taylor-Johnson’s biopic tell us more about her than she…
ByExplore the world of cinema with our selection of film reviews, providing in-depth analysis, thoughtful critiques, and captivating insights into the latest releases and timeless classics.
In her life and music, she was beyond confessional. Can Sam Taylor-Johnson’s biopic tell us more about her than she…
ByThe British director’s film imagines a present day America that has fallen into internecine violence.
ByEthan’s first feature film without Joel sounds like a romp, but misses every beat. Do the brothers need each other…
ByDenis Villeneuve has finally made Frank Herbert’s novel into a successful franchise, with no self-consciousness – or irony.
ByEfron is an underrated actor, and this is a star-making performance.
ByThe movie was derided by French critics as indulgent, with undertones of rancid conservatism. Actually, it’s a love story.
ByCord Jefferson’s adaptation of Percival Everett’s 2001 novel Erasure shows the “African-American experience” as far richer than it’s often allowed…
ByJonathan Glazer’s astonishing adaptation of Martin Amis’s novel is the antidote to Schindler’s List.
ByIn a competitive awards season, this film may seem a modest proposition: but we should reward a funny, sad story,…
ByThis intensely specific film shows a kind of genius for English humdrum understatement about the most wrenching matters.
ByThe musical update of the popular high-school movie is entertaining, but bewildering.
ByThe thrill of this ensemble series about brutish kitchen culture, winner of six Emmys at last night’s awards, lies in…
ByIn a brilliant comic fable, Emma Stone is a rude, punky and modern Frankenstein’s monster that puts Barbie to shame.
ByIn two new blockbusters – Godzilla Minus One and The Boy and the Heron – Japanese filmmakers grapple with atomic…
ByOur choice of the year’s essential screen entertainment.
ByFeaturing Muppets, gremlins, elves and an assassin.
BySofia Coppola’s Priscilla Presley biopic shows how the singer groomed his teenage wife – but his obsession with young girls…
ByThe Warner Bros origin story for the chocolatier adds songs and removes nastiness from Roald Dahl’s tale – for the…
ByIn Maestro, Cooper emphasises the composer’s ambition and hedonism. But Carey Mulligan is the film’s roaring heart.
ByIn this ruthlessly efficient and entertaining epic, starring Joaquin Phoenix, facts are beside the point.
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